CALL FOR PAPERS
Tenth International Conference on Flexible Query Answering Systems
18th-20th September 2013
University of Granada, Granada, Spain



FQAS is the premier conference focusing on the key issue in the information society of providing easy, flexible, and intuitive access to information to everybody. In targeting this issue, the conference draws on several research areas, such as information retrieval, database management, information filtering, knowledge representation, soft computing, management of multimedia information, and human-computer interaction. The conference provides a unique opportunity for researchers, developers and practitioners to explore new ideas and approaches in a multidisciplinary forum. The previous FQAS events were held in 1994, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2009 and 2011.
General and Program Co-Chairs

o Henrik Legind Larsen, Aalborg University, Denmark

o Maria J. Martin-Bautista, University of Granada, Spain

o Maria-Amparo Vila, University of Granada, Spain


Topics of Interest

FQAS2013’s theme: Intelligent information access systems

We invite submission of original research contributions, and proposals for invited sessions, panels, and tutorials. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following in the context of intelligent information access and/or flexible query answering systems:

Flexible question answering systems
Multimodal, Spoken and Multimedia query answering
Mobile information access systems
Ambient information access systems
Semantic Web
Information Retrieval, Extraction and Fusion
Text and data mining
Knowledge representation
Ontologies
Ontology based query answering
Database management
Cross language querying and retrieval
Semantic query expansion
Domain and User Context Modeling
Privacy preserving Querying Answering
Human-Computer Interaction
User interfaces and data visualization
Search engines
Summarization of search results
Social Networks
Cloud Computing and Cloud Information Access
Collaborative information management
Entity/Relationship/Event Recognition and Disambiguation
Approximate reasoning models
Soft Computing
Fuzzy sets, Logic and Probabilistic models
Imperfection/uncertainty management
Belief/trust management
Description Logics

Special Sessions

Special Sessions Proposal Deadline: October 15th, 2012
Important Dates

Paper Submission: March 1st, 2013
Notification: May 1st, 2013
Final Paper Due: June 1st, 2013
Conference Date: September 18th-20th, 2013


Proceedings publication in Lectures Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) by Springer-Verlag

All accepted papers will be published by Springer-Verlag in their Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI).

Authors are invited to submit original previously unpublished research papers written in English, of up to 12 pages, strictly following the LNCS/LNAI format guidelines. Authors can download the Latex (recommended) or Word templates available at Springer's web site. Submissions not following the format guidelines will be rejected without review.